Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.

Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.

The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.

Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself.

Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world.

No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.

To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with ther purest motives, is something incorrect....No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.